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Canoe travel in the Truk area: technology and its psychological correlates
American anthropologist • 60 • Published In 1958 • Pages: 893-899
By: Gladwin, Thomas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article discusses the various factors involved in the extensive canoe trips of the Chuukese, which often covered over two hundred miles in length and occupied weeks and sometimes months in time. The factors that Gladwin believes are very important in such lengthy travels are the individual's psychological adaptation to long periods of loneliness at sea, the special design of the canoes for open sea voyaging, the individual's skill in navigating his boat, and finally the factor of social organization which allowed a Chuukese to have 'brothers,' real, classificatory or artificial, on many distant islands, offering him hospitality at the end of a long sea voyage.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Adjustment processes
- Travel
- Boats
- Navigation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chuuk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1947-1951
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1947-1951
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas Gladwin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 898-899)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trukese (Micronesian people)